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August 13, 2026
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Viktor Andersson
(408) 555-0173 ◇ Santa Clara, CA
viktor.andersson@example.com ◇ linkedin.com/in/viktor-andersson ◇ viktorandersson.com
Objective
C++ developer with 7 years building high-performance systems software, currently on the storage engine team of a database company where the engine serves 2 million queries a second across 800 customer deployments. Cut write latency 38% by redesigning the write-ahead log, cut memory use 25% through allocator and data layout changes, and holds a 0 memory safety defect record in shipped code across 4 years under continuous sanitiser and fuzz testing. Writes modern C++ that is fast because it is simple, and measures before and after every change.
Education
M.S. in Computer Science, Silicon Valley Crown University 2017 – 2019
Focus on Systems and Databases. Thesis on lock-free data structures for concurrent indexing.
B.S. in Computer Engineering, Mission Line University 2013 – 2017
Coursework in Operating Systems, Computer Architecture, Compilers, Algorithms, and Concurrent Programming.
Skills
C++ Development
Modern C++ through C++20, templates and generic programming, memory management and custom allocators, move semantics and value categories, concurrency with atomics and lock-free structures, RAII and resource safety, API design
Systems and Performance
Storage engines and write-ahead logging, cache-aware data layout, profiling with perf and flame graphs, benchmarking methodology, Linux systems programming, SIMD basics, multithreaded design
Quality and Tooling
Unit and integration testing, sanitisers and fuzzing, static analysis, build systems, continuous integration, code review, design documents, debugging with gdb and core dumps
Tools & Platforms
GCC and Clang, CMake, Google Test and Google Benchmark, AddressSanitizer and ThreadSanitizer, libFuzzer, perf, gdb, Linux, Git, Bazel, Jenkins
Experience
C++ Developer, Storage Engine 04/2021 – Present
Silicon Valley Crown Databases Santa Clara, CA
- Develop the storage engine of a distributed database serving 2 million queries a second across 800 customer deployments, on a team of 9 owning about 400,000 lines of C++.
- Cut write latency 38% at p99 by redesigning the write-ahead log with group commit and a lock-free append path, validated on a 40-node benchmark cluster.
- Cut memory use 25% through a custom arena allocator and cache-aligned data layouts, and hold a 0 memory safety defect record in shipped code across 4 years under continuous sanitiser and fuzz testing.
Software Engineer, C++ 07/2019 – 03/2021
Mission Line Networking San Jose, CA
- Built packet processing components in C++ for a network appliance handling 40 gigabits a second with a 99.999% uptime record over 20 months.
- Cut per-packet processing time 30% through a zero-copy buffer design and batch processing of 64 packets.
- Introduced fuzz testing on 12 protocol parsers, finding 9 crash bugs before release.
Software Engineering Intern 05/2018 – 08/2018
Mission Line Networking San Jose, CA
- Built a C++ flow statistics module during a 12-week internship processing 500,000 flows a second with 120 unit tests.
- Cut a hash table lookup hot path 45% by replacing chaining with open addressing and measuring with Google Benchmark.
- Received a full-time offer at the end of the 12-week internship based on the flow statistics module.
Projects
Write-Ahead Log Redesign. Redesigned the storage engine write-ahead log with group commit, a lock-free append buffer, and direct input and output with aligned writes, validated with 200 crash recovery tests and a 40-node benchmark over 6 months, which cut p99 write latency 38% and raised sustained write throughput 2.1 times with 0 recovery defects since release.
Arena Allocator and Data Layout. Built a per-query arena allocator and restructured 8 core data structures into cache-aligned, structure-of-arrays layouts, measured with perf and cache miss counters, which cut memory use 25%, cut allocation calls per query 90%, and raised scan throughput 30%.
Continuous Fuzzing Infrastructure. Set up libFuzzer harnesses for 30 storage format parsers and query paths with sanitiser builds in continuous integration and a corpus of 50,000 inputs, which has found 40 defects before release in 3 years and supports the 0 memory safety defect record in shipped code.
Extra-Curricular Activities
- Speaker at 2 C++ conferences on allocator design and lock-free logging.
- Contribute to an open-source C++ benchmarking library with about 20 merged pull requests since 2021.
- Compete in orienteering events, about 12 races a year across 3 states.
Leadership
- Technical lead for the write path of the storage engine, owning design reviews for a team of 9.
- Mentored 4 engineers on performance engineering and modern C++, 2 of whom were promoted within 2 years.
- Author the C++ coding and review guidelines for an engineering organisation of 120.
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